While Toyota and Honda are looking to alternative technologies, Mazda still sees a future in good old fashioned combustible engines. However, Mazda does recognize the need for less fuel. The Japanese car maker has announced plans to increase the fuel efficiency of its vehicles by 30 percent in the next 7 years through the use [...]

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Toyota has got to be loving high gas prices. Ten years after launching the Prius, Toyota has just announced increased demand has pumped sales figures well above the one million mark. Records show they’d have sold 1,028,000 Hybrid Electric Priuses by the end of April.
The Prius, while originally revealed in 1997, was released in North [...]

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Rain made Japan’s Indy 300 a difficult race but Twin Ring Motegi will be best known as the home of the first female driver to win an Indy Car event. Danica Patrick, a powerful name in herself, almost certainly won the race 198 laps into the race after passing Helio Castroneves. Just two laps [...]

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The esteemed panelists incharge of World Car of the Year have picked the Mazda2/Demio as their 2008 pick, giving a boot to the Ford Mondeo and Mercedes C-Class contendors. Why a cheap and boring Mazda, which by the way, is not sold around the world? I don’t know… no one does. All we do know [...]

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The fellas at Ralph Willis Automotive in Salinas, California managed to get a Lexus IS-F onto their DynoJet dynamometer. The results, as you can see below, were impressive. The IS-F is rated at 416 hp and 371 lb-ft of torque at the engine - and it delivered 333 of those horses and 318 lb-ft of [...]

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The Sun, a paper from the UK, has reported Clarkson, Hammond and May are off to Japan next month for another series of ridiculous challenges. The article is weak on details and has no mention of what they’ll be doing in the Land of the Rising Sun. The insanely popular Top Gear show is currently [...]

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InventorSpot: Osaka has become the first city in Japan with it’s own amphibious taxi service for tourists or people looking for an expensive fix to rush hour blues. The water taxi (which looks a lot like a Mercedes Benz G-Class is not cheap). To carry three people around Japan’s Second City on the Dotonbori River [...]

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U.S. news, some ho hum paper from god-knows-where has released a bunch of numbers on the top 10 cars for 2008. Before you go any further, I must warn you - there are a lot of good Japanese cars on this list! 8/13 type of A LOT!

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